Stevie Ray Vaughan

This dude is crazy, and I'm sure some of you have heard of him. Anyone from the South, that don't know his name should be ashamed (especially you Texans)

You can't modernize Blues music. It's totally impossible, so many people try it and it never works. But SRV like made it popular again in the 1980's. He did so many great covers, without turning them into pop songs. We lost SRV, but hopefully someone will come down the road and make Blues popular again.

Had the man lived, I can picture him a backing horn band and mixing the Blues with some Jazz roots, similar to this